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Juddmonte Farms Inc.'s Beat Hollow, who justified his favoritism in
Saturday's Grade I Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park with a front-running
two-length victory, looms a likely early choice for the Grade I Arlington
Million later this summer based on the facile nature of last weekend's New
York score.

As the traditional signature race of the Arlington Park season, the
20th anniversary edition of the Arlington Million, for 3-year-olds and
upward, will be contested August 17 over Arlington's world famous turf
course at a mile and a quarter.

Although a British-bred, Beat Hollow, nominated to the Arlington
Million, came to the United States for a 2002 campaign after racing in
Europe last season. Since coming under the tutelage of Hall of Fame trainer
Bobby Frankel this year and winning his American debut January 31 at Santa
Anita, Beat Hollow finished second, beaten a head in the Grade II Explosive
Bid Handicap in New Orleans March 24. The 5-year-old son of Sadler's Wells
rebounded to capture the Grade I Woodford Reserve at Churchill Downs on
Kentucky Derby Day, May 4, and then underlined that tally with his
impressive Saturday score on Belmont Stakes Day.

"I told (the jockey) to put him on the lead," said Frankel following
the Manhattan. "He relaxed well and had plenty left for the finish. He ran
a great race. I think he could have won even if he didn't have an early
lead. He's a very good turf horse."

The Juddmonte silks -- green with a pink sash and white sleeves -- are
familiar to fans of international racing and more particularly to Arlington
Million aficionados. Frankel captured the Million two years ago with
Juddmonte's Chester House.

Finishing second behind Beat Hollow in Saturday's Manhattan was
Arthur I. Appleton's Forbidden Apple, who pressed the pace of the winner
while attempting to repeat his own score in the New York 10-furlong grass
test last year. Forbidden Apple is also nominated to this summer's
Arlington Million.

Since winning the Manhattan last year, Forbidden Apple captured the Grade II
Kelso Handicap at Belmont last October and then ran second in the Grade I
Breeders' Cup Mile there later that month. The 7-year-old by Pleasant Colony
then journeyed to the Orient to close out his 2001 campaign with a
fourth-place finish in the Group I Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin Racecourse.

Sam-Son Farm's Strut the Stage, third in Saturday's Manhattan
Handicap, is another nominee to Arlington Million XX. The Theatrical colt,
already familiar to Arlington fans after finishing second by a nose in last
year's Grade I Secretariat here, was never far back in the weekend New York
outing but lacked the needed late response. Strut the Stage was beaten a
half-length by Forbidden Apple in the Manhattan after winning the Grade II
Dixie at Pimlico on Preakness Day, May 18.

The 2002 Secretariat, restricted to 3-year-olds as always, will be
observing its 26th renewal this season and will be contested on Arlington
Million Day, along with the 13th running of the Grade I Beverly D. for
fillies and mares. Together the three Grade I events make up the one-day
International Festival of Racing at Arlington Park on August 17.

The Arlington Million is also the fifth leg of the World Series
Racing Championship (WSRC) -- a 14-race series contested on four continents.
This year, the series will return to Arlington Park October 26 for the Grade
I John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf and Grade I Breeders' Cup Classic as part of
the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships. It will be the first
time in history that any single racecourse will host three legs of the WSRC
in the same year.

Augustin Stables' With Anticipation, fourth in the Manhattan, beaten
a half-length by Strut the Stage, is also an Arlington Million nominee, as
is the rest of Saturday's field. With Anticipation won the Grade I Man o'War
last September.

Caesar P. Kimmel & Ronald A. Nicholson's Blazing Fury, who won
Saratoga's Grade III Saranac last summer, finished fifth in the Manhattan, a
length and a quarter to the good of Nicholas Diaco & Michael Paulson's Hap,
who was compromised at the start on Saturday when he ducked in sharply and
almost went over the hedge. Hap finished second in last year's Arlington
Million, three lengths behind Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof's Silvano.

Gainsborough Farm Inc.'s Slew The Red, seventh in the Manhattan, won
a pair of French Group IIIs last summer, taking the La Coupe at Longchamp in
June and the Prix Gontaut-Biron in August at Deauville.

Gary A. Tankaka's Krombacher, eighth in the Manhattan, is a
German-bred like last year's Arlington Million champion Silvano.

Arlington Park, the Chicago area's premier Thoroughbred racetrack located in
Arlington Heights, Ill., will run a 107-day meet in 2002 from Wednesday,
June 5 to Sunday, Oct. 27. Arlington Park, which merged with Churchill
Downs Incorporated (Nasdaq: CHDN) in September 2000, also operates five
off-track, simulcast-wagering facilities -- "Trackside" Arlington Park
(Arlington Heights), Quad City Downs (East Moline), Chicago, Rockford and
Waukegan. For further information on Arlington Park, visit our website at
www.arlingtonpark.com.

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